The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-29
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Uses are divided into two classes, the
Good Utes and the Bad Utes. The Good Utes
are all dead-Boston Globe.
AN odd thing about the air brakes is that they
fail to work only when the engineer gets killed
and can't tell the rest of the story.-New York
Tribune.
THE substance of the Prohibition platform is
simply this: Resolved that are the Lords
anointed Resolved, that all others are imita-
tions.-Philadelphia Press.
AT Castle Garden investigation continues to
prove that fees have beer necessary to get
things done In hotels, these things called
tips, and in politics 'perquisites. brooklyn
Eagle.
THE President yesterday appointed new
commissioner to look after the national fishes.
The party which the President belongs is
making a noble effort to take care of the loaves-
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
OUR system of administering Justice is upon
trial. The of affairs in Sharp's case will
go far to determine whether Or not 1t Is possible
for rich rascal to be brought to the same pun
shment that poor rascal must endure.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
WHEN a colored editor in the South says any
thing in his paper offensive to bourbonism he is
given his choice between leaving the country or
dying mysteriouslY. He skips and then the
brave bouroons just swell full of pride at the
thought of their vaor.-Detroit Tribune
THE Indiana Democrats, who found large
surplus in the treasury of that State when they
came into power. abolished the evil by stealing
the money. A Republican Senate is all that
prevents the Democrats in Congress from pur-
suing the same pocy.-Cbicago Journal.
IVES swears persistently that he has no idea
what has become of the missing books of his
firm. This is commented upon with considera-
bic astonishment but it is really only what
hight have been expected. Can anybody sup
pose that q little perjury could interfere with
the plans of such thief as he has shown him
self to be?-Cleyeland Leader.
Mr.. CLEvELANDs failure to punish Higgins
and other offensive partisans for their PERM
cious activity in the late primaries at Baltimore.
&c ho l0ct yphi has he
adhesion of the Citizens League Has Mr..
Cleveland protected these rascals in return for
the vote of Maryland in the next Democratic
national convention2 1t looks that way-Aloany
Express.
If Judge Potter's view of the law is correct,
then to prove man guilty of crime and convict
him of the crime very different matters.
Sharp has been proved guilty of the high crime
of bribery. The question still open is whether
the statute and judge-made law of New York
State is grossly defective that it is Impossible
to convict him legally and punish him for his
Observation-Disclosures Press.
In the degree that the country comes grasp
the fact that Discriminate restriction by the
..moral quarantine method of admitting emf
grants only upon certificates of their admissible
ity under the prescribed restrictions of i'm
migrant law designed to exclude all undesira BILE
| characters is perfectly practicable. the public
voice in favor of discriminate restriction of i'm
| migration becomes emphatic Times.
The American party may have little dsv of
| life but it will be shorter one even than that
enioyed by its predecessor. and will not have its
temporary successes. 1t is of those politi-
| cal bubbles which cranks are fond of blowing
| 1t may float about little while, but the first
Whit OF air will dissipate 1t, and no will re-
| gret it. There is call for it. and consequent
| ly no reason for its existence.-Chcago Trib
| UNDOUBTEDLY after David came back from
| shaving Goliath. of the administration
| papers down in Judea which toadying
around Saul for postofices and collectorships
| called him a bounty jumper and asserted that
| he only went into the army because he could
| make more money than by staying at home
Some men were if anything. even meaner TWEEN
ty-fve centuries ago than to-day.-National
! Tribune.
A TRUST company-a corporation of corpor-
atoms, what Is that What but sea devil III
the moral worldl 1t is the en- bodiment OF fam
inc, its multitudinous tentacles each vital and
| each insatiate. II thrusts q sucker into every
home. The measure of its hunger is the need OF